A habitat for psychrophiles in deep Antarctic ice

• Main Author: Price, P. Buford
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: The National Academy of Sciences 2000
• Subjects: Physical Sciences; Antarctic; Lake Vostok; Vostok Station; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC15584; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10655516

Microbes, some of which may be viable, have been found in ice cores drilled at Vostok Station at depths down to ≈3,600 m, close to the surface of the huge subglacial Lake Vostok. Two types of ice have been found. The upper 3,500 m comprises glacial ice containing traces of nutrients of aeolian origi...